Halloween is an exciting time for your children to dress up and walk around neighborhoods, knocking on doors, and collecting treats from their neighbors and friends. Using their candy collection is a fun, educational way to build counting, matching and sorting, and graphing skills while using (and eating!) their favorite treats. As soon as you [...]
The Benefit of Teaching Letter Sounds Before Letter Names

Thinking back to my own experience of learning how to read, I remember learning the letters through repetition – flashcards, letter of the week, and other rote activities. The names came well before the sounds and uppercase was before lowercase. Thinking back, had I been taught the sounds first, the process of learning to read [...]
Maximizing Your Child’s Learning Potential Through the Use of VINCI Tab

For the past 17 years I have taught preschool and kindergarten in both public and private school settings. I have spent endless hours searching for powerful educational activities and have finally found the perfect tool – VINCI Tab. VINCI Tab is FDA approved for children as young as 18 months and includes unique safety features [...]


